Eagan teen charged with four felonies in ISD 196 threats; admits creating Snapchat account

📌 Key Facts

• ISD 196 dismissed and closed five high schools—Apple Valley High, Rosemount High, Eagan High, Eastview High and the School of Environmental Studies—after "potential online threats;" students already at schools were dismissed and transported home by district buses and the district called the closures "out of an abundance of caution" while working with law enforcement.
• Apple Valley police arrested a 16-year-old Eagan boy in connection with a social-media video threat that targeted four high schools, and prosecutors filed four felony counts of threats of violence against him.
• Investigators linked the Snapchat account used to post the threat to the teen by tracing a phone number, and the teen admitted creating the account.
• The video displayed weapons, but officers found no weapons during a search; police say the Monday video appeared to piggyback on an earlier Sunday threat tied to a planned walkout, though the arrested teen is not suspected in the original Sunday threat.
• The case has moved from arrest to prosecution in juvenile court: the teen is being held in juvenile detention and is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 23.
• Burnsville police separately identified and questioned two juveniles regarding an unrelated Tuesday-afternoon threat to Burnsville middle schools; law enforcement says the high school and middle school threats are not believed to be related.
• Districts reported there is no ongoing threat and classes resumed Wednesday; Dakota County Attorney Kathy Keena and a joint law‑enforcement statement emphasized that school-shooting threats cause real fear, disrupt learning and will be prosecuted.

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